Y-W celebrates Halloween with "Under the Sea" fun

"Under the Sea" was the theme for Y-W's annual Halloween celebration.
Each year, Y-W employees decorate their community room according to the theme, employees wear coordinating costumes (this year it was fish hats) and classes from the school, Akron Head Start, ABC and child care homes are invited to come visit.
Every 30 minutes, a different class made their appearance and were first taught a lesson about electricity safety from Andy Molt. Molt had an electrical display that showed the kids what happens if they touch a wire. He talked about the green boxes that Y-W has around town and some are in yards.
"If you see a box and it the door is open, go tell your parents and ask them to call us and we will come out to get it closed. Do not play with it! The same goes for any wires that are down. Call us and leave the wires alone. We do not want to see anybody get hurt," Molt said.
After his presentation, Molt answered questions from the kids, and they always have a lot of questions.
Kids were then taken in groups to look at the pumpkins that were carved by employees of Y-W or to look at the art work of the different classes. The students got to vote for their favorite pumpkin, as well as others who come in. The teachers were then given a bag for each student that have goodies in them.
During the day, employees served refreshments and this year they held a guessing game for those who wanted to enter on how many shells were in the jar.

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The winner of the pumpkin carving by employees was James Ziebarth, who won with his miniature jack-o-lantern. Melodie Kruger won the seashell counting contest. She guessed 1,025 and there were 1,709 seashells in the jar. Mrs. Reid's second grade class won the class project contest and will treated to a pizza party.
Y-W employees would like to thank everyone for participating and the entire community would like to give Y-W a big THANK YOU for hosting this fun event every year.